Time Warner Interactive

Type| Division
Industry| Video games
Fate| Sold to WMS Industries, later transferred to Midway Games
Predecessor| Tengen
Successor| Warner Bros. Games
Founded| June 23, 1993; 32 years ago (1993-06-23) (as Time Warner Consumer Products)
Defunct| April 12, 1996; 29 years ago (1996-04-12) (North America)
November 1996; 29 years ago (1996-11) (Europe)
January 17, 1997; 28 years ago (1997-01-17) (Japan)
Headquarters|

2210 West Olive Avenue, Burbank, CA 91506[1][2]

United States

Products|

* Primal Rage
* Rise of the Robots
* T-MEK

Parent| Time Warner
Subsidiaries| Atari Games

Time Warner Interactive (Group) (TWI) was a video game publishing division within Time Warner. It was formed in 1993 after Time Warner acquired a controlling interest in Atari Games, which was already partly held by Time Warner. It was active until 1996 when WMS Industries, the owners of the Williams, Bally and Midway arcade brands, bought the company.

Time Warner Interactive, was responsible for games, such as Rise of the Robots, Primal Rage, and T-MEK.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 List of games
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Time Warner Interactive was originally formed in 1984 as Warner New Media, and it was renamed to Time Warner Interactive Group in 1993.[3] In 1994, following the full acquisition of Atari Games by Time Warner, TWIG merged with Atari Games and its associated subsidiary Tengen to form Time Warner Interactive, which serve its functions as a video game and multimedia company.[4][5] In 1996, WMS Industries purchased it. Time Warner Interactive was previously known as Tengen, the consumer division of Atari Games. Atari Games would continue to operate under its own name until March 29, 1996, when both it and Time Warner Interactive were bought by WMS Industries and was subsequently absorbed into Williams Entertainment (later renamed Midway Home Entertainment), while Atari Games became part of Midway, and eventually was renamed Midway Games West in 1999.

Time Warner also bought the UK publisher Renegade Software in 1995 and kept it independent as Warner Interactive Entertainment, before merging with the European arm of TWI in 1996. Both subsidiaries were short-lived; Time Warner Interactive was formed from the Atari Games acquisition in 1993 and sold to WMS Industries on March 29, 1996,[6] while Time Warner Interactive Japan dissolved in the same year due to WMS not seeing the merit of having a Japanese division in Japan due to how very costly it is for Midway to have a Japanese video game studio in their hands in Lost Decade situation, and European division of Time Warner Interactive (including Renegade Software) existed only two years before being sold to GT Interactive in November 1996 (GT Interactive are best known for distribution of Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, and Quake as shareware).[7]

## List of games

Release Date  | Title  | Platform  | Developer | Publisher

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1993 | Fire Power 2000 | Sega Genesis |  |

1993 | Batman Returns | Sega CD |  |

1994 | T-MEK | Arcade, Sega 32X |  |

1994 | Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops | Sega Genesis |

1994 | Generations Lost | Sega Genesis |  |

1994 | The Lawnmower Man | Sega Genesis, Sega CD |  |

1994 | Red Zone | Sega Genesis |  |

1994 | Rise of the Robots | Amiga, Amiga CD32, DOS, Sega Genesis, SNES, Game Gear, 3DO, CD-i, Arcade |  |

1994 | Mega SWIV | Sega Genesis |  |

1994 | Chuck Jones' Peter and the Wolf | PC |  |

1994 | R.B.I. Baseball '94 | Game Gear |  |

1994 | R.B.I. Baseball '95 | 32X |

1994 | Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers | Sega Genesis |  |

1994 | Tama | Sega Saturn, PlayStation |

1995 | Cheese Cat-astrophe starring Speedy Gonzalez | Game Gear, Master System |  |

1995 | Kawasaki Superbike Challenge | Sega Genesis, SNES |  |

1995 | Virtua Racing | Sega Saturn |  |

1995 | Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars | Sega Genesis, SNES |

1995 | Power Drive Rally | Atari Jaguar |  |

1995 | Primal Rage | 32X, Amiga, Atari Jaguar CD, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, PlayStation, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, SNES |  |

1995 | Race Drivin' | Sega Saturn |

1995 | Super R.B.I. Baseball | SNES |  |

1995 | Hoop it Up World Tour 3 on 3 the Game | Arcade |  |

1996 | International MotoX | PlayStation |  |

1996 | Pitball | PlayStation |

1996 | PO'ed | PlayStation |  |

1996 | Return Fire | PlayStation |  |

1996 | Striker '96 | PlayStation |  |

1997 | Shinrei Jusatsushi Tarōmaru | Sega Saturn |

## References

1. ↑ "Primal Rage - PC Review". Coming Soon Magazine. 1995. http://www.csoon.com/issue7/prage.htm.
2. ↑ Peter and the Wolf cover of instructions booklet
3. ↑ Rothman, Matt (1993-06-03). "TW revamps multimedia group" (in en-US). https://variety.com/1993/digital/news/tw-revamps-multimedia-group-107436/.
4. ↑ Fisher, Lawrence M. (1994-03-26). "COMPANY NEWS; Time Warner Increases Its Stake in Atari" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/26/business/company-news-time-warner-increases-its-stake-in-atari.html.
5. ↑ Archives, L. A. Times (1994-04-12). "Technology: Time Inc. said Monday that Cable..." (in en-US). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-12-fi-45111-story.html.
6. ↑ Webb, Marcus (June 1996). "WMS Acquires Time Warner/Atari Games". Next Generation (Imagine Media) (18): 26.
7. ↑ SEC Info - Atari Inc - 10-Q - For 6/30/97

## External links

* Midway Games West Inc. on MobyGames (includes the history as Time Warner Interactive Inc.)
* Time Warner Interactive Inc. on MobyGames
* Warner Interactive Entertainment Ltd. on MobyGames

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